Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-06-23
WORK THAT DOESN'T PAY.
How Married Women Should and
should Not Work-Some Valua BILE


How Married Women Should and
Should Not Work-Some Valuable
Suggestions
GFrom the EpochI
If a man is a real man it is safe for wo-
man to continue earning wages after she is
married. but think that there are hundreds
of men to-day, yes thousands, who have
been ruined because they were not compelled
to support their wives. If a man who earns
small wages marries a woman capable of
earning as much as himself there are nine
chances ont of ten that he will develop ex-
travagant habits because of the added in
come of his wife. If they could agree and
hold to the decision that they should live on
the husbands income and let the earnings of
the wife accumulate as capital for business
in which they both could engage it would be
well; but their earnings would probably be
largely dissipated in personal adornment, the
passion for which, especially among the
middle classes, is the bane of the American
people. There is one class of women wage
earners to whom have given much atten-
tion who suffer considerably through their
own ignorance. I refer to the married wo-
men who work in factories or at home, max
ing underclothing and other articles, and
who supplement their husbands wages in or
der to cover their own deficient knowledge
of housekeeping. Such women were wage
earners before they were married and nsyer
had an opportunity to learn how to manage a
house, SO that after marriage they have to
earn money to supply their want of knowl-
edge, not only of cooking, but of sewing.
Such women buy ready-made clothing for
themselves and their children, which of
course are not so durable as could be had for
A.. j.
selves. Not knowing how to economize in
cooking, they spend more money in that way
than they should. Out of three hundred
women wage ea1ners I visited in tenement
houses, only five claimed that they were able
to make bread, and only one really did make
it. Only two were able to cut and make gar
ments for themselves and their children. /
think that these women are all conscious OF
their deficiencies, but they do not know how
to overcome them. They have some spare
time, but they waste it: Their cooking is
of the most primitive and unwholesome de-
scription, and their meals are supplement-
ed with beer, which is looked upon as just
as much an article of diet as bread.
Hope Eternal in the Human Breast.
From the San Francisco Chreniclel
Iwent to the doctor one day. 81 See ad
vertisements," I said to him, Gin all the
Is it any uses Can bring back the blond
tresses that have glistened in the sunbeam
and waved in the balmy breeze of old? Cal
L"
ssNo. Stuff and nonsense When your
bald, you're bald; you can't bring back th'
hair that is dead''
IDEAL gently with me-" I said. "You ar
dashing my hopes and running my happi
ness. Must the fair hand that wishes t.
daily tenderly with my locks be content t.
pass its soft palm over a smooth and placie
skull?'
"Thats about the size of it. All of thos,
hair restorers only hurt your head. It's only
vanity. Don't be SO weak as to wash your
head with all sorts of rubbish. When once
you're bald, you're gone. Make up YOU
mind to that, and carry your bald head like s
man."
AS the doctor was bald himself, why
took his advice as manly. The other nigh
I met his wife and I got to talking of hail
and incidentally alluded to the doctors bald
ness.
ooh, my husbands hair is coming back,
she said
''1ndeed?" I said.
ooh, yes He has private preparation o
| his own, and he rubs it on six times a da.
hard and his hairs coming back"
And he was using it when I consulted him
too.